“Gender Equity in STEM for a better tomorrow”

IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Victorian Chapter, IEEE Women in Engineering Student Affinity Group and IEEE Student Branch at the University of Melbourne are pleased to invite you to the following event. We encourage all members including male and female champions of Gender Equity to participate in this event.

When: 12th August 2020, Wednesday 6 PM – 7.30 PM AEST
Where: Zoom link will be sent to the registered participants

Event Description: Women in STEM are under-represented even in this 21st century. Many organisations, institutions, and even governments are striving to encourage women to pursue science fields and advocating gender equity but there’s still a long way to go. Join us for an online session on August 12, 2020, from 6 PM to 7.30 PM where we will have leading female researchers and scientists from academia and industry talking about the importance of gender equity in STEM especially during pandemic times. Our speakers will be sharing their personal and professional struggles and successes, and how to achieve, improve, and maintain gender equity in organisations and in general. 

Free Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/gender-equity-in-stem-tickets-113722412798
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/206319654141960

Speakers’ Biography

Professor Elaine Wong has more than 17 years of postdoctoral research experience expertise and has significantly contributed to several networking research areas.  Her current research interests lie in prescriptive analytics and networking of AI-embedded edge computing and human-to-machine communications to realise the next evolution of the Internet to support the multi-modal transmission of haptics alongside HD video and audio. She has also collaborated with telecommunication and service providers such as Google Inc, AT&T Research Labs, Nokia’s Bell Labs, China Mobile’s Research Centre, Ericsson Research lab in fibre-to-the-home, optical-wireless network planning and optimisation, cost and performance modelling of 5G Xhaul networks, the energy efficiency of the Internet and mobile services, and content delivery networks and edge computing. She also has a passion for developing assistive technologies and devices and has previously collaborated with Australian disability service providers and their end-users. Elaine is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Optical Society of America Fellow.

Associate Professor Leigh Johnston is a member of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Assistant Dean Research Training in the School of Engineering. Leigh’s research interests are in medical imaging, in particular Magnetic Resonance Imaging.  She is the Director of the Melbourne Brain Centre Imaging Unit, a facility that includes human 7T MRI and PET/CT scanners and a multidisciplinary team of engineers, physicists, radiographers and neuroscientists.  After studying statistical signal processing in her PhD, Leigh was a postdoc in Belgium and Canada for four years before returning to a postdoc position at the then-Howard Florey Institute.  There she discovered the world of brain imaging and Magnetic Resonance physics, fields that will keep her delightfully occupied for the remainder of her research career.

Dr Brooke Farrugia was awarded her PhD in 2010 from UNSW Sydney in Biomedical Engineering. She went on to carry out a post-doctoral position within the Institute of Health and Biomedical Engineering within the Queensland University of Technology, where she was a member of the Tissue Repair and Regeneration group. In 2013 she returned to the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering at UNSW, investigating the response to implanted materials and developing biomimetic materials for the delivery of growth factors. In January 2019 Dr Farrugia joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Melbourne. Dr Farrugia has a multifaceted research background with an overarching theme of investigating the response to biomaterials and how they interact with various biological environments, with research strengths in biomaterials development and characterisation, biochemistry, cellular biology and glycobiology. Specifically, her research activities and interests lie in the fields of wound healing and tissue regeneration; the molecular mechanisms behind their occurrence, and the development of new therapeutics.

Dr.Fateme Fahiman is a Lead Data Scientist where she applies her technical knowledge and expertise on complex business problems to build creative solutions and actionable insights to facilitate the better data-driven decision for businesses. Through years of experience working across various industries, she has helped different organisations such as the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) and EnergyAustralia to adopt advanced technologies in Data and AI. She is passionate about building AI and advanced analytics capability, addressing complex business problems and creating new opportunities for enterprises through the power of data and AI. Fateme holds a Bachelor and Master of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and PhD of Computer science.